Basic Land Tutorial: May 2010

OMNI 3D® Layout Tutorial: Basic Land

This tutorial gives step by step instructions to lay out a No License? No Problem!
basic orthogonal land survey. You will learn how to create You are invited to learn more
a project, lay out shots and receivers, and to change how about OMNI 3D by reviewing
stations are displayed and numbered. You will also learn tutorials and examining
how to automatically fill a survey Boundary (outline) with Tutorial Solution projects.
shots and receivers.
To create your own project
Set parameters as described or shown in pictures of dialogs. you must have an OMNI 3D
As you work, use OMNI 3D’s Popup Help to see license.
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over a parameter or click the question mark in the upper right the Help Menu and see: Help
of a dialog and then click the parameter for Popup Help.

Working with this Tutorial

Go to Help | Load Tutorial Solutions and open the Land folder. The folder contains both the
input data for this exercise and the completed solution project. (Please see the end of this tutorial
for information about working with the solution project.)

To complete this tutorial you will need this file:

...\Tutorial\Land\Basic Land Example-Data\Boundary Points.pnt

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 Basic Land Survey Layout
This is a basic tutorial. We will start by creating a project.

Double-click the OMNI 3D icon on your Desktop to start the program. When OMNI 3D opens,
go to File on the OMNI 3D Main Menu and select New. Create a directory for your project and
name it “2D Ray Model”. The result is a database file (2D Ray Model.odb) and a corresponding
folder (2D Ray Model-files).

Select the Projection system for this project as

shown in the dialog to the right.

In the Project Tree, right-click on the Surveys

folder and select Create New Survey | Empty
Survey.

Name the survey “Basic” and save it in the Basic

Land-files directory.

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 Create Sources
Right-click on Shots under the name of the survey (Basic.osd) and select Add Shots | Add
Lines Wizard. You will use the Shots-Survey Size Definition dialog to set up a grid of sources.

The diagram updates as you change parameters. Blue represents the direction in which shot
station numbers increase (Sht In-Line bearing), red is the direction in which line numbers
increase (Sht X-Line bearing), and green is the direction of the lines when a Skew is applied.
When no skew is applied the green line is parallel to the blue line.

In this example, the origin of the grid will be in the North. The shot lines will run from the origin
along a line at a bearing of 225 degrees. The first station of the neighboring line will be placed
420 meters away at a bearing of 135 degrees.

The First Station Offset will place the first station one half station interval away from the
origin. (You will enter the coordinates for the survey origin later.)

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 You can customize your
source line layout. Take a
moment to look at some of
the options, then accept the
defaults.

Enter the origin for the

survey.

The resulting shots.

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 Create Receivers
Right-click on Receivers under the name of the survey (Basic.osd) and select Add Receivers |
Add Lines Wizard.

You can set up the Receivers in a number of ways. The easiest is to just Transfer parameters
from Shots... This option will automatically enter the values you need to create receiver lines
orthogonal to the shot lines.

We do not need to customize

the receiver line layout. Just
press Next.

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 You can manually enter the
survey origin again, or press
the Transfer parameters
from Shots... button to
automatically enter the
origin.

The survey is drawn in the Edit View.

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 Modify the Survey with a Source Line Skew
OMNI 3D allows you to work with many surveys in one project. This makes it easy to create a
number of surveys and compare them. One quick way to do this is to make a copy of a survey
and modify one or more of the design parameters.

Right-click on the survey file name (Basic.osd) in the Project Tree and select Make Copy of
Basic.osd. Save the copy with a File name of “Skewed Basic”. The survey has been duplicated
and both surveys are displayed in the Edit View.

Right-click on Shots under Skewed Basic.osd in the Project Tree and select Add Shots, Add
Lines Wizard. We will use the skew options in the Shots – Survey Size Definition dialog to
change the angle of the source line.

Under Skew Lines, place a

check next to Skew Lines
and set the Stn Ratio to 2. In
this example, each successive
source station will be placed
a half station interval farther
from the original source line
location. This amounts to a
skew angle of 26.565
degrees. Take defaults for the
next two dialogs.

Manage Edit View Displays

You will see both surveys in your Edit View. You can see surveys together or look at one survey
at a time. Go to the Project Tree, left-click the green checkmark (√) in front of the original
survey file (Basic.osd). A red “X” will replace the checkmark and the survey will disappear from
the Edit view. To simplify the Project Tree listing, left click the minus sign (“-“) in front of the
survey name. This will collapse the listing and make it easier to see which survey you are
working on.

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 Create a Survey Based on a Boundary
Right-click on the Surveys folder in the Project Tree. Select Create New Survey | Empty
Survey. Name the survey "Survey from Boundary".

Right-click on the Boundary item

under the Survey from Boundary.osd
survey and select Edit Survey
Boundary | Create/Redefine Points.
Use the Load button, to browse for
and load the file named Boundary
Points.pnt. This is the area we plan to
fill with sources and receivers. Click
the Apply button to save the boundary
definition and then the Exit button to
close.

Right-click on Receivers and select

Add Receivers | Add Lines Wizard.
You will notice that now there are four
options for Calculation. Select
Calculate from Boundary and enter
the parameters shown here.

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 Take defaults for the next
two pages.

Notice that the location for

the first station has been
automatically determined
based on the bearings entered
on the first page and the
survey Boundary we created
earlier.

When you click Finish you

will see receiver lines in the
Edit tab. Stations outside the
boundary are excluded.
Those that will be included in
the survey are blue.

Right-click on Shots and

select Add Shots | Add Lines Wizard. Be sure that under Choose Calculation Mode you have
selected Calculate from Boundary.

Of course you can enter all the

parameters yourself. However there is
an easier way. Click the button labeled
Transfer parameters from
Receivers...

This will enter values for an orthogonal

source layout. Then you can change the
Line interval to "400" meters.

Be sure that you have selected

Calculate from Boundary before you
proceed.

Take defaults for the next two pages

and Finish. The complete survey will
display in the Edit View.

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 Shot/Receiver Style for Line and Station Labels
Under Survey from Boundary.osd
right-click on Shots in the Project Tree
and select Shots Style. On the Symbol
Display tab you may change the shot
appearance. Clear the check next to
Draw Excluded.

Feel free to experiment with other

settings as well. Zoom in to a corner of
the survey so that you can see labels.
Simply click Apply between each
change to view the results.

On the Line Labels tab you can modify

the way line numbers are displayed.

Use an “S” prefix to identify source

lines and label every second line. Click
on the Font… button. The font Size is
given in survey units. Make the labels
nice and big and use Red to represent
Source lines.

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 Continue by selecting the Station Labels tab. Label every tenth station on every line.
Concatenate the line number with the station number. Set the number of Stn Digits to 4, this will
assure that there is enough space for the entire station number when the line and station numbers
are concatenated.

Click OK to close the dialog.

Repeat this process to define labels for

the receivers. Use all the same settings
but choose blue for the Font Color and
“R” for the Line Labels Prefix.

Shot and Receiver Style settings are

shown below.

Go to File | Save to save the project. You will find more tutorials on the OMNI 3D Help menu or
by following links on the OMNI 3D News page.

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 Working with the Solution Project
You may want to compare your results to the solution project. Go to Help | Load Tutorial
Solutions and open the Land folder. The folder contains both the input data for this exercise and
the completed solution project. To open the completed solution project, double-click the file
named: ...\Tutorial\Land\Basic Land Example.odb.

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